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Obama and Berlin: Faded echoes meet new realities

Posted 9:12 AM 6/19/2013 by Major Garrett - CBS News

BERLIN - This city may be the only place in the world where President Obama's rhetoric is no match and can be no match for the presidents who came before him.

Mr. Obama spoke Wednesday at the Brandenburg Gate just days before the 50th Anniversary (More)

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Pentagon official: 4 Americans killed in attack at U.S. base in Afghanistan

Posted 4:38 PM 6/18/2013 by CNN

CNN - Four Americans were killed during a rocket attack at Bagram Air Base, outside of Kabul, a Pentagon official said Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed that four NATO coalition service members had been killed in an attack (More)

Obama: "Very easy to slip-slide" into deeper Syrian involvement

6/17/2013

At G8 summit, it will be 7 vs. 1 over support for Syria

Posted 7:51 AM 6/17/2013 by Kevin Liptak - CNN News

Ending Syria's brutal civil war will take on fresh urgency at this week's Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland, where global leaders are poised to pressure Russia's defiant president over his support for Syria's government.

The conference of eight of the world's most powerful nations (More)

6/16/2013

Putin warns U.S., West against arming organ-eating Syrian rebels

Posted 3:43 PM 6/16/2013 by Chelsea J. Carter, CNN

(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned Sunday whether his country's supplying of arms to Syria's government was any worse than putting weapons in the hands of rebels who have mutilated bodies, referencing a widely circulated video that purports to show a rebel fighter eating what (More)

6/15/2013

Hassan Rouhani is Iran's next president

Posted 2:28 PM 6/15/2013 by Laura Smith-Spark and Greg Botelho - CNN

CNN - Iranian centrist candidate Hassan Rouhani has won the Islamic republic's presidential election, Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced Saturday.

Iranian officials reported a high turnout, with nearly 73% of some 50 million registered voters -- men and women, young and (More)

6/14/2013

Arming Syria rebels easier said than done

Posted 7:09 AM 6/14/2013 by Clarissa Ward - CBS News

LONDON -- Rebel fighters inside Syria tell CBS News they welcomed the prospect of the U.S. getting more involved to help them in their fight against President Bashar Assad's forces and international backers.

They couldn't quite believe what they were hearing. The announcement came at a (More)

6/13/2013

NSA leaker could face long wait with asylum request

Posted 7:18 AM 6/13/2013 by Seth Doane - CBS News

HONG KONG - It's not clear where Edward Snowden went after he checked out of his Hong Kong hotel room Monday, though he told Britain's Guardian newspaper why he came here.

"I believe that the Hong Kong government is actually independent in relation to a lot of other leading Western (More)

6/12/2013

Tear gas, fire, stun grenades: Chaos in Istanbul as police, protesters clash

Posted 10:49 PM 6/11/2013 by Greg Botelho. Nick Paton Walsh and Gul Tuysuz, CNN

Istanbul (CNN) -- A central square and park in Istanbul erupted Tuesday and into Wednesday in an unsettling, chaotic chorus, with tear gas canisters and water cannons from police met by fireworks, metal banging and defiant chanting from protesters.

The drama followed an ebb and flow of (More)